biography
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| lived:
| (1757–1805)
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| biography:
| Irish Gaelic poet, born in Ennistymon, Co Clare, W Ireland. He became a schoolteacher and small farmer in Feakle, later (1790) marrying and settling as a mathematics teacher in Limerick. He was author of the epic Cúirt an Mheáin Oidhche (c.1786, The Midnight Court). The poem was banned in all English translations after Irish independence, but the Irish language itself was deemed incapable of having a corrupting influence. Liberal (and ribald) Irish intellectuals have established an annual Merriman Summer School, convening in August in Clare. |
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